Date of event: April 21, 2020 - 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm EDT Register Governments spend over $US 700 billion dollars per year on agricultural support measures such as subsidies, border price distortions and investments in raising productivity. Agriculture and land use change contribute close to a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions […]
Principles, practice, and the private sector’s role in malnutrition: Time to review red lines?
by Stuart Gillespie and Nick Nisbett The framing of malnutrition as a global problem that affects us all is long overdue. This view demands more systemic approaches, engaging the whole of society, that align with the universality of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This framing also highlights certain challenges, some of which nutrition actors are […]
Crop diversity and household diets in Ghana
by Maxwell Young Ghana’s steady economic growth since the 1980s has helped reduce poverty and improve food security and is considered one of the development success stories of Africa south of the Sahara. Ghana’s agricultural transformation—improvements in farming technology, value chains, crop diversity, and other changes—has been key to that growth. Less clear, however, is […]
Unpacking the complexity of improved nutrition in Ghana
To mark the start of two new research initiatives in Ghana, a stakeholder event was held, "Unpacking the Complexity of Improved Nutrition", in Accra on July 3, 2018. The initiatives are the IFPRI-Ghana research study on ‘Leveraging Food Systems for Improved Nutrition in Ghana’, and ‘Stories of Change in Nutrition in Ghana’, jointly led by […]
Stakeholder meeting “Unpacking the Complexity of Improved Nutrition in Ghana”
IFPRI’s Ghana Strategy Support Program, and the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, will co-host a stakeholder meeting on July 3, 2018 in Accra to deliberate on the multisectoral contributions towards transforming nutrition outcomes in Ghana. This event will present initial findings from two new research initiatives in Ghana: Leveraging Food Systems for Nutrition and Stories of […]